Faced with the need to react, the mayor therefore made the decision “As of Saturday, in consultation with …
Faced with the need to react, the mayor therefore made the decision “As of Saturday, in consultation with the academic inspector of the constituency as well as the teaching teams”, to invite parents to keep their children at their home for the afternoons of Monday and Tuesday. In the process, several municipalities have embraced the plunge, as in Angoulême, even if the reception in crèches and schools is nevertheless assured for parents without solution. At Montembuef elementary school, Director Adeline Bichon suggested, in addition to the water bottle and the cap, that each child comes to school with a towel, which “we will regularly wet to refresh your child”.
In Garat, the mayor is well aware of touching the limits of an old building. Here, the two schools, nursery and primary, welcome 200 students in total. Buildings that date from the 1960s, and now unsuitable for these heat wave periods which will become more and more frequent. At the time “it was all concrete”, breathes the councilor who shows us the school courtyard which quickly became an oven. Two small trees difficult to shade this morning.
The village hall or the racetrack for students
Some municipalities, as in Mansle-les-Fontaines, even prefer to welcome students this Monday in municipal halls, cooler. “We offered two places: the Gautier Capuçon multipurpose room. And the racetrack, where there are shaded spaces and where the teaching staff can plan to make class outside, ”specifies Mayor Christian Croizard.
“A heat wave when the school year is not over, it’s new. »»
A hundred elementary schoolchildren are affected by this last -minute development. “All this is new to us. A heat wave when the school year is not yet over, it’s unprecedented”.
In Garat, only two rooms are air conditioned. Because “to refrigerate the rest would simply be useless insofar as we have not yet finished insulation work”, explains Laurent Dugué. Between simple glazing, concrete and southern exhibition, certain classes therefore become infrequent.
Two children made discomfort ten days ago
This is what the CM2 teacher who came to this Sunday morning said to correct copies. “Friday, June 20, I spent the morning in the forest with the students, it was perfect. We reinstated the class after lunch, despite the closed blinds, he made thirty degrees there. Two children made discomfort, one of them was able to go home, ”breathes the mistress. According to director Valérie Duchadeau, “most recreation are already done inside. And when the children are outside, they are forbidden to play ball. ”
For the mayor, the urgency today is to renovate the school. “We have applied for a state subsidy to isolate school from outside and change joinery. But we have just learned that our file is not selected. With quotes at nearly 273,000 euros, we cannot do alone ”.
“With heat waves that are brought to reproduce earlier and earlier, the decision to close schools or leave children at home also often poses an educational question,” raises Guillaume Brun, president of the FCPE. “We cannot do without a whole month of June. The program is already difficult enough to hold like that. ”
The FCPE regrets “precipitation”
Guillaume Brun, president of the Federation of Parents’ Councils, regrets the precipitation in which these decisions are made. “We have been talking about global warming for years and we are not ready at all. I remember mayors who refused not so long ago to install the air conditioning at school for ‘three days of warm in the year’. We are there from our reasoning. The result is that today we take action in emergency, “says the one who asks that there is” at least one air -conditioned room in each establishment. Especially those where toddlers take a nap. He sometimes made 35 to 40 ° C there, with frightening humidity. It is an oven dangerous for children’s health ”.
